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the world can cooperate and i think globalization is not us with the bigger shirk but cooperating. that is the century i want to live bin. >> 300 people have more wealth than 300 million and the wal-mart shares are richest and the top 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent we need to redistribute resources. >> they say you cannot live like that. there is always the bad guy. now is the chinese. it is an old argument we become the bad guy because nobody yaks worse than we do. >> we have the power and ironically it was our space that now devolves into the space electronic shield, a triple canopy by 2025, we could become a fascist force for control. we are. like "star wars" and george lucas. will we follow our heart or follow the base instincts? >> host: think you. >> host: john jackson, jr. professor of africana studies at it ever since pennsylvania and author of "racial paranoia" the unintended consequences of political correctness". dr. jackson talking about "racial paranoia" who is paranoid? >> guest: we're all paranoid when it comes to race. for good reason. one poi
the world can cooperate and i think globalization is not us with the bigger shirk but cooperating. that is the century i want to live bin. >> 300 people have more wealth than 300 million and the wal-mart shares are richest and the top 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent we need to redistribute resources. >> they say you cannot live like that. there is always the bad guy. now is the chinese. it is an old argument we become the bad guy because nobody yaks worse than...
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may god preserve us from such a destiny. it was, of course, the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle of removal. boudinot and ridge had no way of knowing that it would lead to a trail of tears. what they did know was settlers were invading their country, evicting people from their home, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative to these, but it also produced the misery and death of the trail of tears which would linger for generations. as we have seen, they paid the ultimate price for their choice to remove x that choice was a fervently held vision that in the end the moral as well as physical condition of their people mattered. ross lost the battle over -- [inaudible] but his unflinching commitment still remains a powerful legacy of this twining moment in the cher -- defining moment in the cherokee past. for the nation at large, the trail of tears offered a delaware stating commentary -- devastating commentary. by the
may god preserve us from such a destiny. it was, of course, the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle of removal. boudinot and ridge had no way of knowing that it would lead to a trail of tears. what they did know was settlers were invading their country, evicting people from their home, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative to these, but it also produced the misery and death of the...
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there are six of us left. [laughter] we used to just fight over gin or vodka. it has become more complicated in recent years. we do things relatively quickly. we can get in and out fast. presbyterians, it was, particularly in the 18th century, a service was not what i would call -- well, you wouldn't want to skip breakfast and just wait for lunch. hours and hours on all of those endless sundays, he heard the catechism, he had an interesting way of communicating. he always used rhetorical questions for the rest of his life, and catechism form. episcopalians, we don't have those. [laughter] the bible was hugely important to him. when he was under stress for the rest of his life, he always felt that on images from scripture. when henry clay threw in his -- he made adam's president, jackson had run the that she had won the plurality of votes in 1824. another thing that instantly regretted. jackson said clay is the cutest of the west, and has and his end will be the same. not exactly in audacity of hope kind of moment. [laughter] we will talk about all that in a sec
there are six of us left. [laughter] we used to just fight over gin or vodka. it has become more complicated in recent years. we do things relatively quickly. we can get in and out fast. presbyterians, it was, particularly in the 18th century, a service was not what i would call -- well, you wouldn't want to skip breakfast and just wait for lunch. hours and hours on all of those endless sundays, he heard the catechism, he had an interesting way of communicating. he always used rhetorical...
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he did not hesitate to use his position to openly debate the issue to use the paper as the official organ of the cherokee nation. they should present only the position of constitutional authority to the cherokee people namely itself. the white political leaders to not look upon this as an expression of weakness in the struggle to resist removal and in the summer of 1832 stopped publishing. outraged by the censorship he resigned. to stay on he said in a final lipitor would place in the amicable position that would be peculiar and delicate. hy believe it the duty of every citizen to reflect upon the dangers which we are surrounded and view the darkness which lies before our people and the process and evil with which we are threatened to take over all these matters. only a free discussion among ourselves will lead to a clear sense of the will of the people. the hostility in the newspaper -- elisha hex was at no time built by presidential and announcing his resignation represented a loss that was a drop in the bucket. he had become the management of the nation and was no more a patriot. there
he did not hesitate to use his position to openly debate the issue to use the paper as the official organ of the cherokee nation. they should present only the position of constitutional authority to the cherokee people namely itself. the white political leaders to not look upon this as an expression of weakness in the struggle to resist removal and in the summer of 1832 stopped publishing. outraged by the censorship he resigned. to stay on he said in a final lipitor would place in the amicable...
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i think i'm for being here, but also to tell us their wares. to begin nine, a question partly the answer is because i can read a calendar. this is 2012 and therefore the bicentennial of the war of 1812 and an anniversary as a kind of doppler effect. and there's a big loud sound of everything happening. and i was really hoping i could catch that moment. and to judge from the folks we have here, i see maybe it's working. what has happened is my curiosity. i think other people it is a war that kind of tends to blur. if you ask any casual student in history about dilution of the civil war and many other conflicts at the 20th century, you probably did a pretty good dancer. you ask about the revolution, 30 of the declaration of independence, the shot heard around the world. we've got valley forge, all kinds of great links, stories we all know. and they come pretty easily to mind. but what the war of 1812 was rather a different matter. and i've asked some questions repeatedly over the last few years and that the war has a remarkable moments come as a
i think i'm for being here, but also to tell us their wares. to begin nine, a question partly the answer is because i can read a calendar. this is 2012 and therefore the bicentennial of the war of 1812 and an anniversary as a kind of doppler effect. and there's a big loud sound of everything happening. and i was really hoping i could catch that moment. and to judge from the folks we have here, i see maybe it's working. what has happened is my curiosity. i think other people it is a war that...
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>> guest: the old army is a term commonly used by historians. actually it's a time from the time period referring to the regular army. there's a joke that the old army is the army before every war. so there's a bunch of old army. so my book actually starts with the professionalization of the army and it's about how that process occurs and plays out in the civil war. >> host: give us a snapshot of what the old army, prior the war of 1812, was like. >> guest: before the war of 1812, and this is drawing on really historical literature by historians -- the army before the war of 1812 is a nonprofessional. it over corps obtained their positions through political influence, and as a consequence they're not -- because they're not professionals who went through a body of education and were promoted by some system of merit, they don't perform very well during the war of 1812 so washington, dc burned. the early attempts to invade canada don't go very well. they're all catastrophes. my impression the canadians look at the war of 1812 victory, sort of a gre
>> guest: the old army is a term commonly used by historians. actually it's a time from the time period referring to the regular army. there's a joke that the old army is the army before every war. so there's a bunch of old army. so my book actually starts with the professionalization of the army and it's about how that process occurs and plays out in the civil war. >> host: give us a snapshot of what the old army, prior the war of 1812, was like. >> guest: before the war of...
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that took us a couple of cycles to get used to that idea, to realize that no matter what they told us, we had to keep going. yes. sorry. >> i know a lot of people. i think i know so many skunks. what is it about high-powered politics that attracts those kinds of people? >> well, it goes back to what i said earlier. i think, for one thing, it takes a certain ego to aspire to high office in we. and it's a question of where that ego takes you. and the opportunities that are presented to that ego increased dramatically the higher you go in power. and as does the screwed. so what you have is, you have more opportunities to make mistakes and are more likely to be caught. and at the same time we do hold politicians to a higher standard because they are our leaders. they will be passing laws that you're going to be governed by. and so i think they do have to withstand greater scrutiny than anyone else. and at the same time, because they're in power they're much more likely to be -- we have two easy microphones right here. went to question side-by-side. you can just pass it to them when you're
that took us a couple of cycles to get used to that idea, to realize that no matter what they told us, we had to keep going. yes. sorry. >> i know a lot of people. i think i know so many skunks. what is it about high-powered politics that attracts those kinds of people? >> well, it goes back to what i said earlier. i think, for one thing, it takes a certain ego to aspire to high office in we. and it's a question of where that ego takes you. and the opportunities that are presented...
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>>host: use of the clintons were above board that hillary was equal partner the obama's has been careful to hide the fact michelle is the most important political adviser and listens to her for decisions. >>guest: yes. the way she does that is through her best friend. valerie jarrett. she hired michele many, many years ago from the goodale the administration but she is a person who comes from a well-off african american family. she introduced for the obama's to the power center jewish-american donors and dave political operatives. as a result raised from obscurity now all socializing rogaine shoulders with the power centers. and then when president of the united states. and she is their godmother now the senior advisor and obama's said i run at all decisions through valerie and trust hurt implicitly. no one has more power than the salary jarret spirit trying to figure out her hold on the president did say famous guessing game. >> what is bourse source of power? she has no foreign policy experience but it tends national security council experience. no economic background but in the most i
>>host: use of the clintons were above board that hillary was equal partner the obama's has been careful to hide the fact michelle is the most important political adviser and listens to her for decisions. >>guest: yes. the way she does that is through her best friend. valerie jarrett. she hired michele many, many years ago from the goodale the administration but she is a person who comes from a well-off african american family. she introduced for the obama's to the power center...
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so i thank them for being here, both to welcome us tonight but also to sell us their wares. to begin then, a question that comes to mind is why a book on the war of 1812. partly the answer is because i can read a calendar. this is 2012, and, therefore, it's the bicentennial of the war of 1812. and and diverse i found have a kind of doppler effect. you don't really care that much and then they speak loud to the have been of thing happens and then they fade away. i was hoping that i could catch that moment, and to judge from the folks we have here i would say that maybe it's working. another reason for a book about the war of 1812 is my curiosity, and i think other people's. because as eric said, in the war that kind of tends to blur and i think if you ask any casual student of history about the revolution or the civil war or any other conflicts of the 20th century, you will probably get a pretty good answer. for example, ask about the revolution, them have the declaration of independence, the shot heard around the world come the battle of yorktown, george washington, valley f
so i thank them for being here, both to welcome us tonight but also to sell us their wares. to begin then, a question that comes to mind is why a book on the war of 1812. partly the answer is because i can read a calendar. this is 2012, and, therefore, it's the bicentennial of the war of 1812. and and diverse i found have a kind of doppler effect. you don't really care that much and then they speak loud to the have been of thing happens and then they fade away. i was hoping that i could catch...
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fu o , icly for us. if we seek race-neutral institutions and color blind laws, they call us racist. of if we point to the thre sed by islicans, t ula phobes and bigots. the only attitudes our opponents hold that could reasonably be called liberal under sympathies they exhibit fo domestic fohepera o voter fraud and the denigrators of religious faith, for the thug erie of government unions and the an anarchistobs who seek to reverselection results they don't like. lilswhago f munists befo , agetrol our lives, to make us better. no more big gulps or incandescent lightbulbs or untad lemonade stands. this all reflectshe reality to mention. inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. [laughter] and justas liberals aren't ho tmawsy edict.ts are no when they control the congress, they rule without advice or consent. when they losetate elections, they descend on legislatures to shut down the very process of deliberation and debate. un ynkhaiv the discredited ideas of karl marx and jimmy carter is the way to the happy future. the book that jacob and i have obatth draich we ca
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all of us have good reason to be alarmed at the u.s. population rate since the nation's number have been increasing at such an remarkable pace. with no european rival to contend with, nothing stood in the way at the doubling of u.s. lands in every doubling of the u.s. population except for thousands of indians who continued to live on their native ground. the united states thus provided a perfect object lesson for claims that x. is population fueled territorial aggression. in what i need your any euro american size of virtuous cycle that many native americans and their british allies sophomores a vicious circle, the continent's wide-open grounds supported demographic expansion even as the increasing u.s. population in a bold seizure and settlement of these lands. the resulting dif urchins in british versus american attitude towards american populations significantly increased tensions between the two nations on the end of the war and if that president thomas jefferson who was the architect of doubling of the nations louisiana purchase h
all of us have good reason to be alarmed at the u.s. population rate since the nation's number have been increasing at such an remarkable pace. with no european rival to contend with, nothing stood in the way at the doubling of u.s. lands in every doubling of the u.s. population except for thousands of indians who continued to live on their native ground. the united states thus provided a perfect object lesson for claims that x. is population fueled territorial aggression. in what i need your...
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may god preserve us in such a destiny. it was of course the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle of removal. boudinot and the ridges had no way of knowing that remote would lead to a trail of tears that would cost 4000 lives and enormous something. what they did know was georgian settlers were invading their country, a 15 people from their homes, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative to these degradation. but also produce the misery and death of the trail of tears, which would linger for generations as we have seen, elias boudinot, major ridge pay the ultimate price for the choice to move. that choice was affirmatively held vision that in the in the moral as was physical condition of the people mattered more than preserving their peoples country. for his part, ross lost the battle over removal but his unflinching commitment to keeping his people together as a unified and sovereign nation still remains a powerful l
may god preserve us in such a destiny. it was of course the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle of removal. boudinot and the ridges had no way of knowing that remote would lead to a trail of tears that would cost 4000 lives and enormous something. what they did know was georgian settlers were invading their country, a 15 people from their homes, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative...
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he also emphatically disputed that emotional primate had any useful us back on military preparedness. whole argued that the men quote, though they were very ardent unpatriotic and their expression had had no service. neither men nor officers had ever been tried. he went on to say, it is not extraordinary initiative house on want of confidence in the straw truth. patriotic order was no substitute for armed effectiveness. no matter the emotional charges against him, he tried to steer the trial back to clear-sighted accounting of the true challenges facing the nation that had gone to worry with only the most limited military infrastructure. critics of the war, amongst the fatah list agree completely withholds decision, that men who claim to feel great order before they had experienced any military action are mistaking shadow. across new england from the first is that the work of the last, calvin and federalists were opponents railed against the role of ardent passion in creating public support for the war. according to federalist allies, members of the new england clergy, men who joined
he also emphatically disputed that emotional primate had any useful us back on military preparedness. whole argued that the men quote, though they were very ardent unpatriotic and their expression had had no service. neither men nor officers had ever been tried. he went on to say, it is not extraordinary initiative house on want of confidence in the straw truth. patriotic order was no substitute for armed effectiveness. no matter the emotional charges against him, he tried to steer the trial...
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can you tell us that? >> well, unfortunately, i don't get as much time as i would like to, so i'm now starting to get back into it. one of the ways that i access my creative outlet was to pay tribute first and foremost to my dad's holiday, the first national holiday by doing a record, producing a record. it was like a "we are the world" type compilation with many young artists. and it featured everyone from whitney houston to run d.m.c. singing and rap combined. and it was a way of educating young people about my dad's message in a way that was not so preachy, but yet fun and creative. so that was one of the things i was really proud of because it accomplished a lot of things. when i see a lot of the artists today -- in fact, part of that record was recorded right here in pasadena. i recorded new edition at that time, the group new edition right here, you know, in pasadena. and the studio owners were very generous enough to donate the studio time. in fact, the entire project was a labor of love. so i'm loo
can you tell us that? >> well, unfortunately, i don't get as much time as i would like to, so i'm now starting to get back into it. one of the ways that i access my creative outlet was to pay tribute first and foremost to my dad's holiday, the first national holiday by doing a record, producing a record. it was like a "we are the world" type compilation with many young artists. and it featured everyone from whitney houston to run d.m.c. singing and rap combined. and it was a way...
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may god preserve us from such a destiny. it was, of course, the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle over over removal. boudinot and the ridges had no way of knowing that removal would lead to a trail of tears that would cost 4,000 lives and enormous suffering. .. for his part ralph lost the battle for removal but the commitment to keeping his people together as a unified and sovereign nation remains a powerful legacy. is the finding moment in the cherokee and american past. for the nation at large the trail of tears offered devastating commentary not only on greed and power but also the increasingly racial world of jacksonian america. by the 1830s only white america especially in the south could lay claim to citizenship and racial entitlement. property owning well-educated men and women no longer constituted sufficient proof of worthiness for participating in the public realm. what had to be white. dealing with both african-americans and native americans andrew jackson
may god preserve us from such a destiny. it was, of course, the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle over over removal. boudinot and the ridges had no way of knowing that removal would lead to a trail of tears that would cost 4,000 lives and enormous suffering. .. for his part ralph lost the battle for removal but the commitment to keeping his people together as a unified and sovereign nation remains a powerful legacy. is the finding moment...
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another aspect of technology is it's more easily synthesized now, and it can be used about us. it's almost as though there is this unbelievably brilliant shrink who is observing everything that we do at all times and capable of rendering an incredibly powerful interpretation that we didn't ask for about who we are and what we're doing. and a different kind of involuntary observation. you know what i mean? >> i, i do. i'm not sure it's just an all-seeing shrink. it seems a little more powerful than that. after all, it was in ancient communit we learn that every worth you speak is supposed to ascend to the heavenly cloud, and the all-seeing beginty records -- beginty records everything, but he also gives forgiveness. if you wrong something, you say something nasty about them, you're allowed to go and ask for apologies. and if you go through times, the apology has to be accepted, and once it is, then the heavenly cloud is wiped clean. contrast that with the digital cloud where the keepers are far less empathetic and forgiving than their divine predecessor. eric schmidt, the head o
another aspect of technology is it's more easily synthesized now, and it can be used about us. it's almost as though there is this unbelievably brilliant shrink who is observing everything that we do at all times and capable of rendering an incredibly powerful interpretation that we didn't ask for about who we are and what we're doing. and a different kind of involuntary observation. you know what i mean? >> i, i do. i'm not sure it's just an all-seeing shrink. it seems a little more...
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i think it might be useful to explain to mr. and mrs. madison in the title it is a function of chronology that when the war began it was the declaration that began it, so he got the blame, and eventually it was. in new england as was alluded to, no one really wanted to go to war. it would interfere with trade, and the politicians in the east as the region was known were mostly merchants and so a new england pamphleteer quickly dubbed the conflict mr. madison's war said with disgust although he was small, sickly and intellectual by nature, his voice sounded a fragile calm he was always dressed in black but the name of the war stock to that war. the first to make a living off the books washington irving described madison as a withered little appleton. he had come to think that going to the war was necessary. then thomas jefferson's secretary of state for two terms and he'd seen a dozen years of outrage at the hands of the british and the risk of sounding i'm teaching to the test. he had four or less reasons for going to the war. first medi
i think it might be useful to explain to mr. and mrs. madison in the title it is a function of chronology that when the war began it was the declaration that began it, so he got the blame, and eventually it was. in new england as was alluded to, no one really wanted to go to war. it would interfere with trade, and the politicians in the east as the region was known were mostly merchants and so a new england pamphleteer quickly dubbed the conflict mr. madison's war said with disgust although he...
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and he was one of the first books used in reconstruction schools. it was reprinted again and again and during the heyday of white power movement in the 1970s by none other than "the new york times" presence of how these ideas are coming back in this discussion of people like this. americans are sometimes forget about the beauty of those who made the sacrifice. we think only about the big bang has come a steady speed, but it took people like this. and i'll just tell you, one other thing is probably the system of educating blacks when he started the school for african people and educated hundreds of people and these teachers, the students came out and were teachers. this is the first time on a massive level this had been done. >> host: professor jackson, what's your background? where did you grow, but you go to i went to newport, virginia, went to school and left and went to reckon the shipyard a couple of years and saw that wasn't for me and didn't want to get drafted so i went back to school and eventually ended up at antioch college. i'm into gradu
and he was one of the first books used in reconstruction schools. it was reprinted again and again and during the heyday of white power movement in the 1970s by none other than "the new york times" presence of how these ideas are coming back in this discussion of people like this. americans are sometimes forget about the beauty of those who made the sacrifice. we think only about the big bang has come a steady speed, but it took people like this. and i'll just tell you, one other...
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it may be useful to explain to mr. and mrs. madison is a function of chronology. madison was president but the declaration that began and in doing gland it would interfere with trade and the politicians were mostly merchants. they quickly called the conflict mr. madison's war. although no warrior who a. >> they did not like it then. we do not like it no. fourth, alleged the british were stirring up the indians. and then the declaration of war referring to the warfare of the northwest territory. he blamed the english for causing trouble the us the support of infection called the war hawks probably e did not hurt the people around said that would be an easy matter that jefferson predicted the capture of canada would be which makes good alliteration but it did not play out that way out. i am delighted to say that i knew when i decided to write the book i wanted to talk about the human perspective mr. and mrs. madison. so painted by gilbert stuart 52 excuse anachronism she is the babe but look at her. her gaze is direct, so is she. meeting james she was recently widow
it may be useful to explain to mr. and mrs. madison is a function of chronology. madison was president but the declaration that began and in doing gland it would interfere with trade and the politicians were mostly merchants. they quickly called the conflict mr. madison's war. although no warrior who a. >> they did not like it then. we do not like it no. fourth, alleged the british were stirring up the indians. and then the declaration of war referring to the warfare of the northwest...
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e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guest and viewers and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> within the conference of doing so much, we went to democrats, republicans, different parts of the country, different ages. we the basis -- you can't make generalizations that are 100% certain and we say as much in the book. conclusions are hypotheses that other people might run with but in order to make even those kinds of hypotheses we needed a fairly diverse group of. >> we also included women, white house project has been around last couple election cycles and they have eight so several of the women of the white house projects identified several years before the 2008 election, kathleen said delius, kathleen sibelius, barbirolli was here when you did the last round of figures with the foundation, talked-about looking at women governors. we talk about women governors who have been through training in the pipeline. >> we made the observation when a male is elected to sen
e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guest and viewers and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> within the conference of doing so much, we went to democrats, republicans, different parts of the country, different ages. we the basis -- you can't make generalizations that are 100% certain and we say as much in the book. conclusions are hypotheses that other people might run with but in order to make even those kinds...
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he was one more than anyone else to involve us in the war of 1812. he led the war hawks who thought it was outrageous that the britishs captured seamen and had them serve in the british navy. we don't study this in history a lot, because it's minor and considered an absolute disaster. we lost the war, and we were lucky the british were pre-audiotaped with napolian. clay realized the reason we lost the war essentially is america didn't have the right industrial capacity. we got our weapons from overseas. british blockaded our ports. we didn't have a common currency or national bank, no way to get credit to fight the british, and then we were on the home court, but there was such terrible infrastructure, you couldn't move troops around the country. came out of the war of 1812 that we needed a stronger national government, and he developed the american system. the american system was a fairly brilliant idea where he was trying to get support in every part of the country, and so he proposed high tariffs to strengthen northern manufacturing. he had the id
he was one more than anyone else to involve us in the war of 1812. he led the war hawks who thought it was outrageous that the britishs captured seamen and had them serve in the british navy. we don't study this in history a lot, because it's minor and considered an absolute disaster. we lost the war, and we were lucky the british were pre-audiotaped with napolian. clay realized the reason we lost the war essentially is america didn't have the right industrial capacity. we got our weapons from...
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and so i disguised the person by not using his or her name. but i can tell you that i ran this version and i was told yes, that's exactly what happens.
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it's about telling us what's important about our history. it's about human character and what it has to do with the story, and usually told with some sympathy for the human character as difficult, as odd are the odd as they may be, as aaron burr was end with the right amount of color, the kind of color that we all see in the most interesting characters in our daily lives. i should say not quite as colorful as perhaps aaron burr but i think it's gore vidal as historical fiction. [laughter] and, then every great historian has a unique talent and david stewart with his training as a lawyer, brings to history what i think of as a forensic attitude toward the evidence, and this can be distinguished from an argumentative attitude that many academic historians take. it's a genuine concern with where the evidence leads us and when motives are mixed as they clearly are in this story, it's a particularly great quality to have, so the question that david will answer for us tonight, this book answers and i hope the talk will answer, was aaron burr, was
it's about telling us what's important about our history. it's about human character and what it has to do with the story, and usually told with some sympathy for the human character as difficult, as odd are the odd as they may be, as aaron burr was end with the right amount of color, the kind of color that we all see in the most interesting characters in our daily lives. i should say not quite as colorful as perhaps aaron burr but i think it's gore vidal as historical fiction. [laughter] and,...
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pay us back. now that china's gotten involved, it's a little more complicated. but that's the system that is being challenged. and it is simply threw that for the last -- true that for the last few hundred years the global currency has pretended to be the premiere military power. i don't think that's a coincidence. how exactly it works, we could all talk about. so it strikes me that that's what's being contested here, was the primacy of the dollar. and it's not only what other currency, but would possibly replace the u.s. as hegemon? >> the question of the future of the dollar is closely related to the future of the american economy as david just suggested. the country that has the biggest, most powerful economy is usually the one that dictates the terms of world finance. you can see this in the case of the united states. the united states was the most product i economic power in the world by the beginning of the 20th century. at that point it remained an international debtor, but during the first
pay us back. now that china's gotten involved, it's a little more complicated. but that's the system that is being challenged. and it is simply threw that for the last -- true that for the last few hundred years the global currency has pretended to be the premiere military power. i don't think that's a coincidence. how exactly it works, we could all talk about. so it strikes me that that's what's being contested here, was the primacy of the dollar. and it's not only what other currency, but...
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whenever he used to :. he said, you know, if we can get this serious you can put a four-letter expletive, then that will calm the situation. and what was interesting about that comment and bush did not like after 2003 and for. is to about that comment. i said, what to you think of that comment by president bush caught on tape? and, again, have expected him to say typical this, typical. he said to my love it. i love it. because that means there thinking about me. they're worried about me. and ways that is part of syrian foreign policy is having some sort of leverage. it's a fairly weak kutcher militarily. the levers they have is to the support of has the look, a run, thomas, the palestinian territory. that is their leverage. as the up to mothers weather that point to give up those things. very enlightening. is important that syria is seen as if they have more for fabrics and they do. >> don't you think that mr. assad is fulfilling his father's dream? that was the whole thing, that he went in and he ruthlessl
whenever he used to :. he said, you know, if we can get this serious you can put a four-letter expletive, then that will calm the situation. and what was interesting about that comment and bush did not like after 2003 and for. is to about that comment. i said, what to you think of that comment by president bush caught on tape? and, again, have expected him to say typical this, typical. he said to my love it. i love it. because that means there thinking about me. they're worried about me. and...
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thanks very much for having us out. we appreciate the book stall bringing us in. most people don't realize it's actually the last bookstore in the northern suburbs of chicago. um, that's actually a joke. [laughter] but anyway, we're really happy to be here. this is, actually, our first signing event for this project, so it means a lot to have people out and, um, to hear about the work. so, um, and thanks for the introduction, sara. she's left. >> in the back, i think. >> so, basically, that's -- by way of background, that's where this begins for us is john was more on the political side with the paper since the late '90s, i was on the kind of a crime beat at first, and then i moved to 26th street which is the criminal courthouse in chicago and then from there to federal court. and our careers sort of merged, not surprisingly, around rod blagojevich sometime after '02, '03, in that range and certainly by '05 and '06. um, so the project was sort of just our attempt to preserve this story and kind of tell a piece of city history and, um, and try to -- i don't know if
thanks very much for having us out. we appreciate the book stall bringing us in. most people don't realize it's actually the last bookstore in the northern suburbs of chicago. um, that's actually a joke. [laughter] but anyway, we're really happy to be here. this is, actually, our first signing event for this project, so it means a lot to have people out and, um, to hear about the work. so, um, and thanks for the introduction, sara. she's left. >> in the back, i think. >> so,...
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so i am hoping that it will have a lot of different uses. while we have made unbelievable progress what's also pause to remember we have kids jumping off bridges. one of the things in cambridge massachusetts we live in a bubble and if you don't live on one of the two coasts or in an urban area, you are very likely to experience the kind of attitudes that existed 50 years ago and if you are a kid at least you can find out there are other people like you that you are not the only person in the world experiencing what you are experiencing but still it's really tough out there and for all of the progress that we have made, we still have way too much bullying and depression and attended the suicide particularly in our young people so it's important to remember that it's not like cambridge word new england. we are seeing remarkable progress in some of our religious institutions. in the episcopal church i am happy to say we have now ordained its second day bishop as los angeles so the church has decided this is where we are headed and there we go a
so i am hoping that it will have a lot of different uses. while we have made unbelievable progress what's also pause to remember we have kids jumping off bridges. one of the things in cambridge massachusetts we live in a bubble and if you don't live on one of the two coasts or in an urban area, you are very likely to experience the kind of attitudes that existed 50 years ago and if you are a kid at least you can find out there are other people like you that you are not the only person in the...
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you know, in all the years of driving it us, i don't think he spoke to us. we called him shaky because he was nervous. [laughter] shaky, slow down! you're going to kill us! it sits south of birmingham, the largest city in alabama and the largest industrial center in the south. together with the neighboring towns they formed a new place over the mountain the catch all term fortune the suburban scrawl you go over red mountain to get there from downtown. having lived there, i suppose i can say that the whites aren't any more or less racist in the ones in the other suburbs. when the school system was formed here in l 1980 the city went to great lengths to put it on display. they choose a mas cotted mascot with a -- he was an angry mark twain. the hat cooked back. a clenched fist. the official school banner was a confederate battle federal government. the stars and bars was on proud display. if you stumble on to a football game by accident, you might think you heard a clan rally with the con suggestion stand. it's true. [laughter] that is the image they wanted an
you know, in all the years of driving it us, i don't think he spoke to us. we called him shaky because he was nervous. [laughter] shaky, slow down! you're going to kill us! it sits south of birmingham, the largest city in alabama and the largest industrial center in the south. together with the neighboring towns they formed a new place over the mountain the catch all term fortune the suburban scrawl you go over red mountain to get there from downtown. having lived there, i suppose i can say...
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under this indictment, by any evidence submitted to us. i have never seen a verdict like that before. by the best evidence against burr never made it into the trial. there were reports the spanish and british ambassadors as to what he said about them which were buried in diplomatic archives for 75 years. correspondence between burr and wilkens in which neither of them was willing to produce. they both said -- this was a remarkable bit of drama, that it would be wrong to disclose another man's private correspondence. as a gentleman they would be unable to do that. mutual deterrence they both held on to those letters and never -- burr's confederate refused to testify against him. we have the account of one of his confederates, eric ball when, taken from prison to meet with president jefferson. jefferson -- what burr intended. according to him, take baton rouge, sees the ships in new orleans harbor. not sure how you see the ships without taking control of the city. it sounds a lot like leaving -- leading an insurrection. burr himself tried so
under this indictment, by any evidence submitted to us. i have never seen a verdict like that before. by the best evidence against burr never made it into the trial. there were reports the spanish and british ambassadors as to what he said about them which were buried in diplomatic archives for 75 years. correspondence between burr and wilkens in which neither of them was willing to produce. they both said -- this was a remarkable bit of drama, that it would be wrong to disclose another man's...
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recovery is, a park where he used to live. and in the park there are lots of exhibits that are devoted to him. it is one that says active in anti slavery causes. this is five wrong. it would be much more accurate to say that he was active in suppressing antislavery causes. part of this, will we don't want to remember about our own history. i don't want to give the wrong impression. this book is not a polemical book, not up to score points. mostly up to tell this amazing story of the events of washington in 1837 and 18:36 p.m. on the night of august 4th 183-5177 years. when a young man, seven, 19 year-old african-american man stumbles into the bedroom of his mistress of the woman who owns them, and a marie a fortune in the middle of the night carrying anax. her servant that mother of the boy who'd stumbled into the room. so the two women wake up, screamed. others outside yelling and shouting that he wants to be free. he's going to be free. the neighbors gather. arthur runs away. the words began to spread. attacked in her bedroo
recovery is, a park where he used to live. and in the park there are lots of exhibits that are devoted to him. it is one that says active in anti slavery causes. this is five wrong. it would be much more accurate to say that he was active in suppressing antislavery causes. part of this, will we don't want to remember about our own history. i don't want to give the wrong impression. this book is not a polemical book, not up to score points. mostly up to tell this amazing story of the events of...
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he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of the points you make in "power, inc." is there are some multinational corporations and make more money, control more money than most governments on earth. >> big companies like walmart have more employees than smaller countries in the world but a country like a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of 30 or 40 countries on earth and therefore it has resources that allow it to set up offices in more countries than most countries have embassies, put more money toward influencing outcomes and political campaigns, to a greater ex
he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of...
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can use multilingual, it became a teacher. he formally -- he had done to agree clergy in england and came to america but had not joined per share. the quakers were like the black church. they sedna dorr three times you are automatically a member. he became a quaker and started teaching at a school for girls. why did he become a quaker? there were certain ideas that had tremendous impact and one was the notion that regarded a human being. i don't have to preach the word of god. i can get myself. one does not inherit the sins of the father. a slave did not inherit slavery. as we have known by other early philosophers. slavery as a condition to be born in. the idea of slavery being imposed upon those -- did not believe in natural slavery. the idea of excessive wealth. the other one we know best from quakers in america of the peace principle, the fighting of our choosing so he had been upset and from that he walks the world in definitely seeing a black man in gary wilson and boys in chains and found something in common with them s
can use multilingual, it became a teacher. he formally -- he had done to agree clergy in england and came to america but had not joined per share. the quakers were like the black church. they sedna dorr three times you are automatically a member. he became a quaker and started teaching at a school for girls. why did he become a quaker? there were certain ideas that had tremendous impact and one was the notion that regarded a human being. i don't have to preach the word of god. i can get myself....
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you look at a crowd, and you look at who's looking at us. why are they looking at us? are they planning what our schedule is? are they moving around depending on where we go? or are they looking at meredith just out of curiosity, they want to be there, a piece of history? so, again, training -- it was on-the-job training. has anybody in the military, in the audience here, have anybody served in the military? please, your hands? so few of us left these days. you just throw a second lieutenant into the pool, and if he survives, he survives. if not, bring on another one. they're expendable. so, again, i picked sharpshooters, i picked military policemen who were veterans and had some degree, i felt some degree of performance professionally; self-control, self-restatement, no trigger-happy, no incidences. this was an important event in the eyes of the world around these soldiers, and so luckily i picked the right ones and at an event in memphis the night before that very few units had to undergo was we were separated by the blacks. blacks had to step back the night before w
you look at a crowd, and you look at who's looking at us. why are they looking at us? are they planning what our schedule is? are they moving around depending on where we go? or are they looking at meredith just out of curiosity, they want to be there, a piece of history? so, again, training -- it was on-the-job training. has anybody in the military, in the audience here, have anybody served in the military? please, your hands? so few of us left these days. you just throw a second lieutenant...
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send us an e-mail or tweet us. montpieler was named the capital for its location weapon visitedded the city to explore the history and literary culture. montpellier. >> we are at the historic vermont college of fine artses in montpellier vermont. i'm the founding president of the college. i've always been a story-teller and always loved to read, and i was reading -- i thought maybe shy do this and i went back to school and took a creative writing class and decided i had a knack for it and never turned back. there's nothing more satisfying than working on a novel, particularly when you have a job like running a college. it's almost like -- although my literary life is an important part of what i do in some ways i'm still a tinkerer at night in the garage. i'm no different than someone building model airplanes. eye just crafting a 280 page novel that people hopefully read and enjoy. >>> the building behind is was erected in 1868 and this was a women's undergraduate college for years. in 2006, the campus was in danger
send us an e-mail or tweet us. montpieler was named the capital for its location weapon visitedded the city to explore the history and literary culture. montpellier. >> we are at the historic vermont college of fine artses in montpellier vermont. i'm the founding president of the college. i've always been a story-teller and always loved to read, and i was reading -- i thought maybe shy do this and i went back to school and took a creative writing class and decided i had a knack for it and...
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be sure to join us. [applause] last year, we had the wonderful opportunity of hearing ann coulter speak. when i think of ann, i think of the research done for two years preparing for the website, radio show, and our company, and we examined a phenomena, the renaissance of the conservative woman. conservative women are informed, engaged, articulate than ever before, and best of all, they irritate the left more than ever before. [applause] quite fun, quite entertaining. [laughter] when it comes to that particular sport of exaser rating liberals, there's no one better than ann coulter. [cheers and applause] got to love it. [applause] and since my husband did a brief stint as an executive with the world wrestling federation before becoming a producer at disney, there's a particular metaphor that comes to mind when you watch ann walk in with a liberal. it's the wwf smackdown. look at the cases from matt, katie, cheech and chong. [laughter] she pulled punches with that substance using challengers in that case,
be sure to join us. [applause] last year, we had the wonderful opportunity of hearing ann coulter speak. when i think of ann, i think of the research done for two years preparing for the website, radio show, and our company, and we examined a phenomena, the renaissance of the conservative woman. conservative women are informed, engaged, articulate than ever before, and best of all, they irritate the left more than ever before. [applause] quite fun, quite entertaining. [laughter] when it comes...
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was forgive us our debts which is ou actualy says in arabic but it says forgive us our debts just as we forgive those who owe us money. the idea is we don't actually forgive those who owe us when we really deserve it. [laughter] >> depends on how nice we are. >> yeah, there is a lesson. that theme shows up over and over again. it's a little bit like the beginning of plato's republic, opening western political philosophy, starts with this whole couple sang justice is just a matter of paying your debt. socrates blows that one out of the water right away. no, it isn't, that's ridiculous. okay, not that, then why? that question, is in a way asked in almost all the great religious works. if you go back to the origins of hindu philosophy company start with your life is a debt to the gods, you repay it through death. but then they make it clear that such would all. he also only debt to your parents. you retain that by this you repay that make becoming a parent. so anyway what you do, you repay the debt by realizing there isn't a debt. it raises the question how can you owe something to the
was forgive us our debts which is ou actualy says in arabic but it says forgive us our debts just as we forgive those who owe us money. the idea is we don't actually forgive those who owe us when we really deserve it. [laughter] >> depends on how nice we are. >> yeah, there is a lesson. that theme shows up over and over again. it's a little bit like the beginning of plato's republic, opening western political philosophy, starts with this whole couple sang justice is just a matter of...
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for protecting us from those awful arabs working in the middle east. and the possibilities for fundamental change appear to be quite small. what would be called a set of different institutions in a different type of culture. personally i doubt there's much chance of that. america is what it
for protecting us from those awful arabs working in the middle east. and the possibilities for fundamental change appear to be quite small. what would be called a set of different institutions in a different type of culture. personally i doubt there's much chance of that. america is what it
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my parents had a car and they could have driven us back after school. but the coach told us know. so when alisha thomas in stevie hills. she looks back on it without regret. even when remembering the worst. i don't feel like i got as much out of the system as the other kids. but we didn't have anybody fighting for us. my feelings got hurt, but the little stuff i went there was nothing. i'm okay with that. i didn't have anything going on. and i'm how much of that for me and i hope i can do the same for my voice. the two young men doing their work behind us is the people that she is writing about today. she went to the university of alabama at birmingham, got married and i looked into midfield just west of downtown. she worked at a saxophone or at the galleria. while she pondered what to do next, a job offer floated in red vestavia hills needed a new bus driver. for children about to start school and like all parents, she wanted her children to have a good future. she could not afford to live in vestavia hills. every employee of the vestavia hills system of schools enrolled his or h
my parents had a car and they could have driven us back after school. but the coach told us know. so when alisha thomas in stevie hills. she looks back on it without regret. even when remembering the worst. i don't feel like i got as much out of the system as the other kids. but we didn't have anybody fighting for us. my feelings got hurt, but the little stuff i went there was nothing. i'm okay with that. i didn't have anything going on. and i'm how much of that for me and i hope i can do the...
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by speculators who often don't use their money, they use our money. and they use our money to generate huge fees and profits that are generally unregulated. so we have, number one, not the right things are being produced, not the right things in the right way are being produced, environmentally-benign ways, respectful of descendants' ways, respectful of climate change, acid rain, land erosion, oxygen depletion in the ocean, etc. the second aspect is what is produced is very poorly distributed. this is the achille's heel of corporate capitalism because no matter how much is produced in the aggregate apart from the quality of what's produced and what isn't, the one claim they have to legitimacy is they know how to grow an economy. they know how to build the gdp. they know how to aggregate capital. and if they can't distribute it in a way to prevent people from slipping behind as they are now, they lose their legitimacy. the highest wage for the majority of the workers in this country adjusted for inflation was 1973. it has been downhill ever since. >> y
by speculators who often don't use their money, they use our money. and they use our money to generate huge fees and profits that are generally unregulated. so we have, number one, not the right things are being produced, not the right things in the right way are being produced, environmentally-benign ways, respectful of descendants' ways, respectful of climate change, acid rain, land erosion, oxygen depletion in the ocean, etc. the second aspect is what is produced is very poorly distributed....
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we don't have the power broker wes used to. all the openness meant there's no sort of -- anybody is in control in 1952 you had party leader and bosses that controlled their delegation. everybody from missouri, this is how you're going to vote, and you're going to loser job as postmaster. don't have a system like that anymore. so this will bolter chaos, may end up being very similar to the 1924 democratic convention, which finally nominated a man named john w. davis on the 103rd ballot which led will roger to equip, in the future kids will silt only grandpa's knee and say, what did you do in the big war? grandpa would say i didn't do that but i survived the 1924 convention. so, i think it will be very chaotic. nobody running the show and dealing and wheeling wheeling ay ugly but falls nateing if you like politics. >> modern day losers get contractedded by media as real loser rather than respectable candidates. what are your thoughts. >> that's a very good question. i think a couple of things. hasn't always been that way there wa
we don't have the power broker wes used to. all the openness meant there's no sort of -- anybody is in control in 1952 you had party leader and bosses that controlled their delegation. everybody from missouri, this is how you're going to vote, and you're going to loser job as postmaster. don't have a system like that anymore. so this will bolter chaos, may end up being very similar to the 1924 democratic convention, which finally nominated a man named john w. davis on the 103rd ballot which led...
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it was a or rend use story for us a of us. it was horrific, it was tragic, it was wrenching. i learned various things from the coverage of 9/11 which was not only that day, we were on the air for about 100 hours straight. lead principally with peter and lead by dianne and charlie and ted. one thing i learned is how much you expect out of the journalist in sometime of crisis. everybody wants to reach out with their loved ones and that's a time when you're a journalist you have to be there "24"/7 and working around the cluck. sort of ironic somewhat humorous story, believe it or not, that day came when our news room late in the morning started getting e-mails from e-mail accounted we couldn't identity. it was something like, i may not get it right, hot babe 364. it we couldn't figure out what it was. it took us a half hour. it was george steph no loss he walked near ground zero and had struck up some sort of a acquaint tanship with a young woman and talked her into using her computer. he was trying to report in what he was seeing and airing. and he took us a half hour or more t
it was a or rend use story for us a of us. it was horrific, it was tragic, it was wrenching. i learned various things from the coverage of 9/11 which was not only that day, we were on the air for about 100 hours straight. lead principally with peter and lead by dianne and charlie and ted. one thing i learned is how much you expect out of the journalist in sometime of crisis. everybody wants to reach out with their loved ones and that's a time when you're a journalist you have to be there...
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not representing us. they are representing a party. and when it comes to vietnam, i'm a vietnam veteran, i have paid the dues. and, peter, i wish that you would have more programs like this, booktv, and also the -- [inaudible] armstrong williams. it's time out for us damaging our chirp. we're not investing in our children. but when it comes to racism, it's very easy to identify. try being black. try being hispanic-american. you will be able, and as an american white male, don't tell me about discrimination. we black american males, veterans, dr. malveaux, would you please continue? if they won't listen to you, i know they won't listen to me. thank you very much, and keep on keeping on, sister. >> guest: thank you for calling, and it's great to reconnect after that 1984 democratic convention. we fought really hard, didn't we? and reverend jackson just shone in those moments. it was an incandescent moment for us. now, the question you asked is about a marshall plan, and certainly the national urban league a
not representing us. they are representing a party. and when it comes to vietnam, i'm a vietnam veteran, i have paid the dues. and, peter, i wish that you would have more programs like this, booktv, and also the -- [inaudible] armstrong williams. it's time out for us damaging our chirp. we're not investing in our children. but when it comes to racism, it's very easy to identify. try being black. try being hispanic-american. you will be able, and as an american white male, don't tell me about...
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now, it may take us a while for us to become a party. it took us a while to become a party to the international court of justice and other international institutions. but i don't think anyone should kid themselves that the atmosphere between the united states and the court at the moment bears any resemblance to where it was back in 2003/2004. the mood is very fundamentally changed. i have colleagues here from the state department -- when we went to the assembly states meeting in new york of the icc, there was applause as the united states entered the room, you know, the deep freeze was over. the period of engagement has begun. and the point we get to more formal kinds of relationships will always take time for the united states which is a country that has been worried about entangling alliances since george washington. but i do think the mood is very, very fundamentally different than it was. >> i'm going to open this up for questions in a sec but i would like to ask one final question for the group, which is really the role of justice i
now, it may take us a while for us to become a party. it took us a while to become a party to the international court of justice and other international institutions. but i don't think anyone should kid themselves that the atmosphere between the united states and the court at the moment bears any resemblance to where it was back in 2003/2004. the mood is very fundamentally changed. i have colleagues here from the state department -- when we went to the assembly states meeting in new york of the...
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it's a good thing for us to vote. you know, we know, we know that people believe that so strongly that if you look at a survey and ask post-election, survey the public on whether or not they voted, after every election somewhere in the range of 75-80% of the public claims to have voted. and we know even in presidential election years that it's only about 50%. so that means somewhere in the range from 20-30% of the american public is willing to lie to a complete stranger and say they voted when they didn't. now that's funny in itself, but what it tells us is that there is an incredible pressure in this country to, you know, that we are socialized into this idea, you've got to vote. get out there and vote. so people are embarrassed if they didn't. so they're more -- they are more comfortable lying to somebody about it than they are saying they didn't do it. so that tells me that americans tend to think participation is important. and if that's the case, our results suggest that as the country, as people -- not as a coun
it's a good thing for us to vote. you know, we know, we know that people believe that so strongly that if you look at a survey and ask post-election, survey the public on whether or not they voted, after every election somewhere in the range of 75-80% of the public claims to have voted. and we know even in presidential election years that it's only about 50%. so that means somewhere in the range from 20-30% of the american public is willing to lie to a complete stranger and say they voted when...
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we were going to lose because of grover cleveland to got us in the depression. william jennings bryan had a lot of forms and wanted to regulate wall street. he wanted a federal reserve and women to have a right to vote. he wants to regulate the railroad. it is an extremely radical program. so radical that the 1890's sixers campaign is the most expensive presidential campaign in history. big business was terrified. they hired 10,000 people -- they said you vote for william jennings bryan you are fired. william jennings bryan has to win don't come to work. it caused quite a firestorm but he ran a hell of a campaign. in that one election, to a liberal progressive party. two other folks who generated a political change are barry goldwater a you might remember, i had a goldwater button in second grade. transformed the republican party into a conservative party. eisenhower, tom dewey was the standard bearer before that. they came into an accommodation with the welfare state and agreed they could not repeal social security and was slow down the growth. extremism and pu
we were going to lose because of grover cleveland to got us in the depression. william jennings bryan had a lot of forms and wanted to regulate wall street. he wanted a federal reserve and women to have a right to vote. he wants to regulate the railroad. it is an extremely radical program. so radical that the 1890's sixers campaign is the most expensive presidential campaign in history. big business was terrified. they hired 10,000 people -- they said you vote for william jennings bryan you are...
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this is the real thing when he used in the senate would use stapp as the president is in the museum for the cuban missile crisis those who wrote for kennedy, a servant him comment to him as a friend had their own take, interpretation and their own spin. now the visible speaker tonight, the voice we and 48 you to listen to is kennedy. we see this book as the one kennedy never had the opportunity to write. now individual who is the most responsible, caroline kennedy conceived the idea that presented the most compelling and fascinating excerpts of these recordings and she championed the publication. i can personally attest of reword, every caption come in every photograph had caroline's eye for detail and accuracy. i am sure to 90 writing that as well. also the author and editor of nine best-selling books of american history, politics. poetry. you can make that 10 best-selling boop -- books we heard "listening in" is now on the top 10 best-selling list. [applause] caroline serves as president of the kennedy library foundation for some of the programs the government could not support index
this is the real thing when he used in the senate would use stapp as the president is in the museum for the cuban missile crisis those who wrote for kennedy, a servant him comment to him as a friend had their own take, interpretation and their own spin. now the visible speaker tonight, the voice we and 48 you to listen to is kennedy. we see this book as the one kennedy never had the opportunity to write. now individual who is the most responsible, caroline kennedy conceived the idea that...
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with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria halpern and together so when maria halpern and gets pregnant she has a son and neither knew who the father was. maria complicates things by naming the child oscar cleveland oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter, frances. wheatland was a bachelors of cleveland accepted the responsibility and put the child in an orphanage. here's the other part of the scandal. oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident. he is thrown from an apparently breaks his neck. he leaves a widow and a young girl frances and globe -- rover leave and make s
with the limits of presidency the democrats use that saying. it's kind of a democratic rejoinder but what made it scandalous, grover cleveland's best friend and law partner was a guy named oscar fulsome. cleveland was born in new jersey and he spent most of his career in buffalo. he was a very successful lawyer and he and oscar were partners. they practice law together and they went out together and they would go out drinking and being together and it appears they enjoyed the services of maria...
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in europe and other places are not being used here. but, remember, the fda, of course is controlled by the lobbyists of the pharmaceutical companies and others who have a vested interest in making a profit and in "sicko" i told the story of jonas salk and, i told the story in my last film, "capitalism, a love story" and he invented the polio vaccine and people were shocked that he didn't want to trademark it or copyright it. that he decided to just give it away for free to the american people, to the world and he said he thought it would be immoral if he were to own that or make a profit off it. he said, you know what? i'm a doctor, i'm a researcher, i get a great salary, i live in a big house. what more do i need? i did this for the people. where is that? where is that sense of -- talk about patriotism, right? not just for america but for the world. we don't have >> here's a short author interviewer from c-span's campaign 2012 bus as it travels the country. >> mr. guldbrandsen coming about two different communities to talk to people a
in europe and other places are not being used here. but, remember, the fda, of course is controlled by the lobbyists of the pharmaceutical companies and others who have a vested interest in making a profit and in "sicko" i told the story of jonas salk and, i told the story in my last film, "capitalism, a love story" and he invented the polio vaccine and people were shocked that he didn't want to trademark it or copyright it. that he decided to just give it away for free to...